Salvatore Ligresti

Salvatore Ligresti (13 March 1932-15 May 2018) was an Italian businessman who was involved in the Tangentopoli scandal.

Biography
Salvatore Ligresti was born in Paterno, Sicily, Italy in 1932, and he was involved with numerous businesses before becoming one of the richest men in the country during the 1980s. Thanks to the boom building of the "Milano da bere" ("Milan to drink"), he obtained important building contracts, and he reinvested his construction company proceeds in a series of corporate holdings. In 1992, during Tangentopoli, he was arrested for using corruption to acquire contracts, and he spent 112 days in prison. He continued to have legal troubles into the 2000s, and, during the 2010s, many of his assets were seized. He died in Milan in 2018 at the age of 86.